Complex property deal involving Lakewood, Jeffco Schools and a nonprofit group has landed in court

Complex property deal involving Lakewood, Jeffco Schools and a nonprofit group has landed in court

A cash-strapped school district that’s looking to unload a shuttered elementary school. A nonprofit human services agency that’s in need of a bigger home as it serves more than 60,000 households a year. And a judge who’s telling Colorado’s fifth-largest city not to make any moves on the whole situation — a complex deal that would allow the agency to move into the school — until she can determine whether everything is on the up and up. That’s the…

Property deal involving Lakewood, Jeffco Schools and a nonprofit group lands in court

Anita Springsteen, a lawyer and former Lakewood city councilwoman, is leading a challenge to a complex land deal between the City of Lakewood, Jeffco Public Schools and The Action Center that would bring the humans services nonprofit to the former Emory Elementary School in Lakewood on Oct. 28, 2025. She posed for a portrait outside the former school. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) A cash-strapped school district that’s looking to unload a shutte…